Review by snowbenton - The Adoration of Jenna Fox

snowbenton 's review for:

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

4.0

dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It is rare that a book handles the slow-reveal monster trope well. Girls With Sharp Sticks, for example, spends the whole book tiptoeing around the fact that the girls are robots, when it's implied in the blurb already. Same for Twilight and scads of other YA books. What Jenna Fox does so well is that even while you are waiting to see what she is, you already know enough to be scared, but there is enough plot to keep you interested. And you find out early enough that you can spend the rest of the story immersed in the horror that Jenna feels, and questioning what she is.

Like all good scifi, this questions what it means to be human.